'For Alex it's a case of life or death': For some the cost of living crisis is also a health crisis

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'I don't think we should sugar coat it, it's incredibly hard in every aspect of life' says Luke Marsden - adding people are showing the same 'sense of camaraderie and community' as they did during the pandemic. KayBurley: 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

This is the stark situation faced by families with sick and disabled children at home, who rely on life-supporting machines."It worries me for the future if things do get worse," Emma says."How will it affect us as a family, what do we do? It's all very well and good someone coming in and saying"get an extra job, do this and do that" but I struggle now with the work I do now and looking after Alex. I mean Alex alone is a full-time job, caring for him.

Called"Brighter Dayz", the centre was set-up by Emma and other local parents when other care provisions shut down just before the first COVID-19 lockdown.Image:Andrea Mordechai travels half-an-hour the town of St Helen's to bring her son Jack, 13, here once a week. "It's stressful enough raising a disabled child," Andrea tells us,"and right now with the price of everything going up it's even more of a worry. It's just unaffordable."The community has come together in Wigan, to provide children and their families with this support that they so acutely need.Related Topics

 

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